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Converting Fixed-Width Text Files To CSV in C++ (and for free)
A recent data acquisition brought forth the requirement to process fixed-width text files that comprise the data. This would not have been much of a discussion point were it not for the fact that some of the files were huge - 60Gb in one case. Most of these large files comprise the space character, serving as padding for the fixed-width fields; this serves to illustrate how inefficient fixed-width text files are, but that is not the point we're making here today.